The Origin of Life: An Inside Story - 2016 Lectures (with James Tour)
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Keywords: Chemistry, Origin of Life, James Tour, University of Waterloo
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Length: 83min 58sec (5038 seconds)
Published: Wed Mar 23 2016
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Disclaimer: I'm not a religious person, I'm not a biologist, I'm just a science enthusiast. One of the topics I find very interesting is the origin of life. As years go by, there is more and more evidence, that life on Earth appeared "almost instantaneously", meaning less than few hundred million years after the formation of the planet. Considering how complex biomachine even the simplest cell is, and how improbable is that the exact, perfect conditions needed for the formation of even the basic building blocks of a simple cell happen at the same time at the same location, not to mention the probability of the self-assembly of the needed parts into something meaningful, that can reproduce itself, and live, we are literally, unspeakably, unbelievably lucky, that we are here.
So considering all, it seems very unlikely to me, that abiogenesis could happen on Earth in such a short time. Which means that I think panspermia is probably true. But that doesn't solve the problem either, and now the question is whether less then 8 billion years are enough for abiogenesis to happen somewhere else in the Universe, and then somehow propagate to Earth. Or its just intelligent design after all, whether by God, or by higher dimensional beings, or by the creators of the simulation we live in.
Anyway, I found this lecture by James Tour, who is apparently in the disenfranchised minority with his views, extremely interesting and thought provoking.
Didn’t like this lecture very much. Speaker seemed closed minded and absolute. The lecture felt more like preaching than education. He suggests that evolution only begins once life begins. Chemical evolution would greatly increase the rate at reach abiogenesis occurs.